. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany; Botany. W2 POPULAR PLOBA. Lobes of the salver-shaped or funnel-shaped corolla spreading, rounded. Each with one eHge outside and one inside in the bud : corolla very- short, (Uyosbtis) Scokpion-Gkass or Fobget-me-not. Two lobes cohering the others in the bud. ' Corolla short, white or whitish, funnel-shaped, (Lithospermum) Gromwell. Corolla long, orange-yellow, salver-shaped, (Litho
. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany; Botany. W2 POPULAR PLOBA. Lobes of the salver-shaped or funnel-shaped corolla spreading, rounded. Each with one eHge outside and one inside in the bud : corolla very- short, (Uyosbtis) Scokpion-Gkass or Fobget-me-not. Two lobes cohering the others in the bud. ' Corolla short, white or whitish, funnel-shaped, (Lithospermum) Gromwell. Corolla long, orange-yellow, salver-shaped, (Lithospermum, ^ Buiscliia) PuccoON. Akenes or lobes of the ovary prickly, fixed by their side or upper end to the base of tlie style. Corolla salver-shaped, with 5 scales in the tliroat. Erect, prickly on the margins only. Flowers small, (EcMnospermum) Stickseed. Oblique or flattened from above, short-prickly or rough all over, ( Ci/nof/lossum) Houkd's-tongue. * * Ovary not lobed, but splitting when ripe into 4 akenes: corolla short, (fleliutrojnum) *Heliotuoi'e. 65. WATERLEAF FAMILY. Order HYDROPHYLLACE^. Herbs â with lobed, compound, or toothed and mostly alternate leaves ; the regular flowers much like those of the Borrage Family, except as to the ovary, which is globular and onl)- one-celled and bears the few or many ovules and seeds on the walls (pari- etal), or on two projections from thein. In Waterleaf, Nemophila, &c., the two placentas, bearing the few seeds, broaden and make 452. Flower of Virginia Walerleaf. 453. Corolla taid open, and slamena. _ l^Jrifl nf linincr to tlip 454. Calyx and young pod, with the style. ° pod. Corolla bell :haped or wheel-shaped; its lobes and the stamens always 5. Style 2-cleft dbo\e. The "Water- leaf furnishes our principal plants of the family that are common wild. But some Ne- mophilas and Phacelias, from and California, are showy garden annuals. Leaves opposite, at least the lower ones. Stamens not projecting beyond the
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